Samuel JOHNSONThe Works of Samuel Johnson. COMPLETE EXTENDED SET IN CONTEMPORARY FULL CALF Talboys & Wheeler, and W. Pickering, Oxford 1825 11 vols., 8vo., with engraved armorial vignette on titles; attractively and strongly bound in contemporary full tan calf, sides with gilt frame border, backs with five raised bands, second and third compartments with red and black leather labels lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly ruled and tooled in gilt, doublures tooled in blind, all edges marbled, one volume neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, six labels (three red and three black) missing (but residual lettering wholly legible in blind), backstrips rather scuffed and age - worn (particularly on sixth volume), joints mildly rubbed (but all bindings entirely sound), else a handsome, internally crisp and spotless extended set in elaborate period binding. This set includes all half - titles, but was bound without the engraved portrait of Johnson often present in first or third volumes.Published in the series 'Oxford English Classics', this edition was supervised by Francis Pearson Walesby (1798 - 1858), Fellow of Lincoln College and later Professor of Anglo - Saxon at Oxford. The set was originally to comprise nine volumes (see titles); the tenth and eleventh volumes containing the 'Debates' were issued as supplements.Volume one contains Murphy's 'Essay', first published separately in 1792. In volume nine, 'Journey' retains the dates of August 13 ('Lough Ness') and September 20 ('Skye'), but corrects the error about the Macleods.Courtney & Nichol Smith pp.166 - 7; CBEL II, p.614

CONDE, JOSÉ ANTONIO / LACROIX DE MARLES, JEAN (Editor & Transl.):Histoire de la domination des Arabes et des Maures en Espagne et en Portugal, depuis l'invasion de ces peuples jusqu' a leur expulsion définitive; rédigée sur l'histoire traduite de l'arabe en espagnol. Three volumes. Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1825. 1825 1825 - Pp. (iv), 504; (iv), 470; (iv), 412, xxxviii, vi. Uncut copy in original decorated boards, with some wear to spine ends. Housed in a special made cloth box. Partly with some light staining. First French edition of Conde's history of the Arab rule in Spain. José Antonio Conde (1766-1820) was educated at the university of Alcalá and became a member of the Spanish Academy in 1802. This his most important work presents for the first time a complete version of the history of Islamic Spain covering the period from the Arab invasion of Spain in 711 to the expulsion of the latter in 1492. It was posthumously published at Madrid during the years 1820-21. Unusual to find in the original boards. James Monroe: "Islam and the Arabs in Spanish scholarship", pp. 50-52. Palau 59020. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

AYACUCHO, Battle of].Viva la Patria. @[text begins:] Gobierno de Valparaiso. Tengo la mas sublime complacencia de pasar á V.S. por estraordinario el adjunto impreso de Lima en que se anuncia la esplendida noticia del triunfo decisivo que han obtenido en el Perú las armas de la América sobre el último resto de la tirania española . Santiago de Chile, Imprenta Nacional, (cover letter dated January 9, 1825). - Caption title. Two columns. Broadside. Folio (30.5 x 21.5 cm.), disbound. Several tears, without loss. Narrow strip (1.5 x 17 cm.) trimmed from left margin. Uncut. In good condition. ---- The report from Lima, dated 18 December 1824, gives a brief account of the Battle of Ayacucho (9 December) and its aftermath. This was the final battle in the struggle for Peruvian independence, and thus the end of the Spanish-American wars of independence. According to the cover letter, dated at Valparaiso, January 9, 1825, and signed by José Ignacio Zenteno, the report was handed by the Libertador del Perú to the captain of the French frigate, who brought it to Chile.---- Not located in Briseño. OCLC: 55281477 (John Carter Brown Library, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile). Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Copac. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

[Ellis, William]:A JOURNAL OF A TOUR AROUND HAWAII, THE LARGEST OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. BY A DEPUTATION FROM THE MISSION ON THOSE ISLANDS Boston. 1825.. 264pp. plus four plates and folding map. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Original plain boards. Spine bit chipped, contemporary presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Overall a very good, crisp copy in original state, untrimmed. In a blue cloth slipcase. An important early account of Hawaii by a visiting group of London missionaries in company with Rev. William Ellis. Ellis, a British missionary, established the first printing press in the South Seas, and while on Hawaii, he and Hiram Bingham printed the first book there in 1823, a hymnal. "Rev. Ellis and three of the American missionaries, Asa Thurston, Artemas Bishop and Joseph Goodrich, were dispatched for the purpose [to learn more of the Hawaiian people with a view to establishing mission stations in Hawaii] in June, 1823, landing at Kailua and spending two months in making the circuit of the island. They were the first white men to visit the volcano of Kilauea. Upon the return of the party to Honolulu, a joint JOURNAL of the expedition and observations was prepared by Ellis. Copies of this, together with a report by the American missionaries, were printed in Boston in 1825..." - Hill. The handsome engraved plates depict Kuakini, governor of Hawaii; a missionary preaching to natives; the great crater at Kilauea; the burial house of Keave; and Makoa a guide to the deputation of missionaries. The map of Hawaii is improved from that of Vancouver. The appendix contains biographical information about persons mentioned in the text, geographical data, names of the former gods of Hawaii, and an alphabet and vocabulary of the Hawaiian language. Ellis later rewrote portions of this work, adding further observations, which were published collectively the following year in London as NARRATIVE OF A TOUR THROUGH HAWAII. A beautiful copy of this missionary account of the island of Hawaii, one of the earliest and probably the best of such accounts. STREETER SALE 3751. HILL 545 (ref).

Blackstone, William; Coleridge, John TaylorCommentaries on the Laws of England. In Four Books London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell and J. Butterworth and Son, 1825. 16th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sixteenth edition. In four volumes. Leather, matching early rebacking with red and black labels on spines, lettered in gilt, dated at foot. Frontispiece portrait of author by Gainsborough in Vol. I, fold-out tables of Consanguinity and Descents in Vol. II. Good condition overall. Bookplates on front paste downs of each volume with names on ffeps. Leather brittle, chipped at corners, splitting along feet. Vol. I lacking half-title and has some underlining and marginal notes, mostly in red and regular pencil, a handful in pen; the other volumes pages are free of marks. Vol. III split hinge at front. Vol. IV front board detached. A cornerstone of Anglo-American law.

[FREYCINET]Esquisse de la Ville de Sydney, Capitale des Colonies anglaises, à la Nouvelle-Hollande Paris: Pillet Aine, 1825. Engraved map measuring 320 x 237 mm. (plate size), a very good copy, framed. Detailed and finely engraved map of the budding settlement at Sydney Cove, from the official published account of the Uranie voyage of 1817-1820 to Australia and the Pacific commanded by Louis de Freycinet. This map depicts Sydney in 1819, when Freycinet and his party spent several very pleasant weeks anchored in the harbour, Louis and Rose became close friends of the Governor, Lachlan Macquarie and his family. Freycinet was astounded by the growth of the settlement and the quality of the architecture he encountered, having previously visited Sydney Cove as an officer on the Baudin voyage of 1800-1804.The detail of this map reflects the curiosity of the French visitors who enjoyed the warm hospitality now that Britain and France were at peace and they could inspect the settlement unhindered.The map details a number of landmarks that remain familiar to this day, including Hyde Park, Woolloomooloo and the Botanical Gardens. Indeed, the street plan engraved here remains largely unchanged as the central business district of Sydney today. The map is a remarkable visual record of Sydney.

GENET, Edmond CharlesMemorial on the Upward Forces of Fluids 1825. |~||~||~|FIRST AMERICAN WORK ON AVIATION GENET, Edmond Charles. Memorial on the Upward Forces of Fluids. 112 pp. With 5 engraved plates, 1 folding table, plus one illustration in the text. 8vo., 227 x 140 mm, bound in original printed boards as issued, preserved in a new half blue morocco protective box. Albany: Packard & Van Benthuysen, 1825. |~||~||~||~||~| First Edition. "From a scientific viewpoint this is the most important American publication in the field of aviation, for it is the first printed suggestion of the correct theory of the heavier than air machine" (Honeyman 1475). In this uncommon work, Genet contemplates steam being applied to aeronautics and the plates include a depiction of an Aerostatic Vessel. It is further described in the Streeter sale as: "extremely rare and important, the first book printed in the United States on practical aeronautics and on the first patent for an aeronautical invention, by the then-naturalized former Ambassador from France and key figure in the Genet Affair" (Streeter 3974). Some foxing throughout on account of the paper stock, minor staining or soiling to boards; overall in superb condition. Howes G100. See: Brockett 356 for later reprint only. Honeyman Catalogue 1475.

[Johnson, Capt Charles]; [Defoe, Daniel]The History of the Pirates, Containing the Lives of Those Noted Pirate Captains, Misson, Bowen, Kidd, Tew, Halsey, White, Condent, Bellamy, Fly, Howard, Lewis, Cornelius, Williams, Burgess, North, and Their Several Crews. Also, an Account of the Piracies and Cruelties of John Augur, William Cunningham, Dennis Mackarthy, William Dowling, William Lewis, Thomas Morris, George Bendall, and William Ling, who were tried, condemned and executed at Nassau, New-Providence, on Friday, the 12th of October, 1718. To which is added, A Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West-Indies; and the Expedition of Commodore Porter Haverhill: Thomas Carey, 1825. Second Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Second American edition. Boards rubbed with loss of paper along fore-edge, ink name (A. Wallace) on front flyleaf, a few pages faintly foxed, mild transfer throughout. 1825 Half-Leather. 276 pp. 12mo. Black morocco spine with gilt titles & rules over marbled boards. Contemporary full calf, gilt rules. Originally published in London in 1724, and first published in the United States in 1814. A pseudonymous work attributed to Daniel Defoe based on scholarly comparison to his other writings. This edition removes the description of Magadoxa in Ethiopia, and adds a section treating piracy in the West Indies from 24 January 1821 to 16 May 1825, as well as an engraved frontispiece depicting pirates commandeering a ship (oddly, one is armed with a hammer, the other with an axe). Sabin 32197, Howes C-144. Neither Sabin nor Howes attribute this publication to 'Capt. Charles Johnson' as is stated in the 1814 edition - Howes actually credits the publisher as the compiler and cautiously references '[a]n earlier edition [which] may have appeared at Norwich 1814. We have compared the text of the 1814 and 1825 editions and find the volumes to be identical with the exception of the changes mentioned above. The type was reset and new plates were made, which makes the arrangement and pagination slightly different

[LA PEROUSE] PLAYBILL: Theatre Royal, Drury LaneDe La Perouse: or, The Desolate Island [et al, including "Guy Mannering"] Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: Tabby Printer, 1825. Folio playbill on wove paper, 330 x 195 mm., in fine condition. La Perouse on the English stage. Rare playbill for the performance of the popular South Seas utopian melodrama based on the wreck of La Pérouse, in London on Saturday 19 November 1825. Peter Dillon did not confirm the wreck of La Pérouse's two ships on Vanikoro until 1827, but as this playbill confirms, interest in the French explorer was undiminished: the show 'will be repeated every Evening till further notice.'European fascination with the whereabouts of the lost French Pacific explorer - and the often fantastic, utopian explanations of his disappearance - continued well into the nineteenth century and even persisted after discovery of the expedition's fate. In the best pantomime traditions, the dramatis personae includes Theodore, son of La Perouse played by Miss Lane, and a surely compelling performance by Master Wieland as 'Chimpanzee, an Animal of the Desolate Island'. Any number of important hints about the production can be gleaned from the playbill, notably that the overtures and music were by Davy and Moorhead, the dresses by Mr. Banks and the Misses Smith, and the "Machinery and Properties" by Nall and Kelly. A note also says that the "new scenery" is by Marinari, Roberts and Stanfield; interestingly, the list of eight major scenes including "Storm and Shipwreck" and "Perouse's Hut and Drawbridge" notes the name of the principal artist in each case. Some idea of the spectacle may be gleaned from a few surviving graphic sources. Ferguson records a copy of an 1808 prospectus for the pantomime (see Ferguson 464b). McLaren notes a few examples of similar playbills including another Drury Lane announcement for December of the same year (340).